Typhus

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, ·etc. ·see Jail fever, under Jail.

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typhus
tȳphus, i, m., = τῦφος, pride (late Lat.): inentis elatio et typhus qui appellatur a Graecis, Arn....

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